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Opponents clashed over the California Air Resources Board's Advanced Clean Fleets, a state proposal to ban gas-fueled truck sales and make large trucking firms convert to electric within two decades.

The California Air Resources Board held the first of two hearings on the proposed Advanced Clean Fleets regulation, which lays a road map for transitioning public and private fleets to zero-emission vehicles.

Environmentalists and trucking industry groups sparred with clean air regulators this week over a contentious proposal to phase out California’s big rigs and other trucks with internal combustion engines, and force manufacturers to speed the mass production of electric trucks.

Opponents clashed over a state proposal to ban gas-fueled truck sales and make large trucking firms convert to electric within two decades. Story from @CalMatters.

Opponents clashed over a state proposal to ban gas-fueled truck sales and make large trucking firms convert to electric within two decades.

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The rationale for a slow transition is the same as was heard for decades in California: electric vehicle prices are too high, there isn’t enough infrastructure to support these vehicles, their driving ranges are too short, and certain models aren’t available (electric utes, for example).

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In a historic vote in August, California regulators agreed to ban the sale of new gasoline-fueled cars by 2035. Because the state is the largest auto market in the U.S., the move could lead to a nationwide shift. But as Amna Nawaz reports, there are still many barriers to American drivers going fully electric.

California approves a policy to require nearly all new vehicles sold in the state by 2035 to be electric.